I read some of the link and I would have to agree to a point with that person when they say:

Our forefathers never left this country. It was taken by violence.

According to Scripture the Jews were driven out because they didn't know the time of their visitation (Luke 19:41-44).

When you said " i find this statement from a jew in regards to the spirit of all jews about {{{their claimed homeland}}}", you must not be aware that before the Arab conquest of Palestine, that, (Roman name for the Holy Land), for more than one thousand six hundred years, Jews formed the main settled population of Palestine. After the Roman conquest, some Jews still remained in Palestine, mostly, near Safed, Tiberias, Hebron and Jerusalem, the four 'Holy Cities' of Judaism from Biblical times.

There have been two competing mythologies about Palestine circa 1880. The extremist Jewish mythology, long since abandoned, was that Palestine was "a land without people, for a people wihtout a land." (This phrase was actually coined by the British lord Shaftesbury in his 1884 memoir.) The extremist Palestinian mythology, which has become more embedded with time, is that in 1880 there was a Palestinian people; some even say a Palestinian nation that was displaced by the Zionist invasion.

The reality, as usaul, lies somewhere in between. Paletine was not a land empty of people. It is impossible to construct the demographics of the area with any degree of precision, since census data for that time period are not reliable, and most attempts at reconstruction by both Palestinian and Israeli sources usually ends having a political agenda. Only rough estimates are possible. The entire population of Palestine (defined for these purposes as current Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip) was probably in the nighborhood of half a million at the time of the First Alliyah (Israeli immigration) in the early 1880's. That same area today supports a population of more than 10 million, and is capable of sustaining a far larger population. The area that was evetually partitioned into a Jewish state by the United Nations in 1947 contained only a fraction of that number, with estimates varing between 100,000 and 150,000. Geographically, Palestine had uncertain and ever-shifting boundaries. Palestine was not a political entity in any meaningful sense. Under the Ottoman rule, which prevailed between 1516 and 1918, Palestine was divided into several districts, called 'sanjaks.' These 'sanjaks' were part of administrative units called 'vilayets.' The largest portion of Palestine was part of the 'vilayet' of Syria and was governed from Damacus by a pasha, this is why Palestine was referred to as southren Syria.

Followed by a ten-year occupation by Egypt in the 1830's. Palestine was divided into the vilayet of Beirut, which covered lebanon and the northern part of Palestine (down to now is what Tel Aviv); and the independent sanjak of Jerusalem, which covered roughly from Jaffa to Jerusalem and south to Gaza and Be'er Sheva. It makes no sense to say that the Palestinians were the people who originally populated the "nation" of Palestine.


Respectfully